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1. Blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow

First Line:
Blow winds and crack your cheeks rage blow
Last Line:
And show the heavens more just
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
37394

2. But if a frenzy do possess the brain

First Line:
But if a frenzy do possess the brain
Last Line:
If false accords from her false strings be sent
Author:
Sir John Davies (Absolute)
DMI number:
16377

3. But if you hit the cause that hurts his brain

First Line:
But if you hit the cause that hurts his brain
Last Line:
His eyeballs roll and he is mad again
Author:
Nathaniel Lee (Absolute)
DMI number:
6959

4. But now her grief has wrote her into fancy

First Line:
But now her grief has wrote her into fancy
Last Line:
When most it swells
Author:
Edmund Smith (Absolute)
DMI number:
19789

5. Hark hark a hallow voice calls out aloud

First Line:
Hark hark a hallow voice calls out aloud
Last Line:
To try if hell can yet more deeply wound
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute) & Nathaniel Lee (Absolute)
DMI number:
20561

6. Hark methinks the gods grow loud hark how

First Line:
Hark methinks the gods grow loud hark how
Last Line:
O' th' louder threatenings of the angry gods
DMI number:
19798

7. He raves his words are loose

First Line:
He raves his words are loose
Last Line:
And turns his brains to frenzy
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
19774

8. Her unregarded locks

First Line:
Her unregarded locks
Last Line:
Of wretched sustenance
Author:
Thomas Otway (Absolute)
DMI number:
19771

9. I have bethought myself

First Line:
I have bethought myself
Last Line:
Enforce their charity
Author:
William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:
19781

10. Like Pentheus when distracted with his fear

First Line:
Like Pentheus when distracted with his fear
Last Line:
The furies guard the door and intercept his flight
Author:
John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:
37094